| 单词 | ravel |
| 释义 | ravel (once / 1501 pages) vn Ravel is an interesting verb, in that it can mean both "tangle" and "untangle." So if you work to ravel yarn into a neat ball, your cat may come along and try to ravel it again. The first syllable in ravel is accented and gets the short a sound, as in apple: "RA-vle" How can a word mean both one thing and its opposite? In the case of ravel, the answer is sewing: As threads come unwoven from a cloth, they become tangled on each other. Since untangling is never far from tangling, ravel covers both meanings. WORD FAMILYravel: raveled, raveling, ravelled, ravelling, ravels, unravel+/raveling: ravelings/ravelling: ravellings/unravel: unraveled, unraveler, unraveling, unravelled, unraveller, unravelling, unravels/unraveler: unravelers/unraveller: unravellers USAGE EXAMPLESThere was a yarn snowman that Courtney had made when a Brownie, it was gray now, and beginning to ravel. Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins(1978) “They are fine for rote learning, but the study of naming requires a level of dedication that ravel such as yourself rarely possess.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) Let’s knit up the raveled sleave of care together today, shall we? Slate(Jun 20, 2016) 1v disentangle Syn|Ant|Hyper ravel out, unravel knot, tangle tangle or complicate disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl extricate from entanglement 2v tangle or complicate a ravelled story Syn|Ant|Hyper knot, tangle unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of ravel out, unraveldisentangle enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine spin,wind, or twist together 3n a row of unravelled stitches Syn|Hyper ladder, run damage, harm, impairment the occurrence of a change for the worse Ravel (once / 42824 pages) n WORD FAMILY Ravel: Ravels USAGE EXAMPLESOne commissioner — Ravel — says she’ll quit the agency by May, when her term expires. Time(Dec 15, 2016) Beilman and Zhang, both 26 and graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music, played the Ravel with a common understanding. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) On Tuesday, Andrew Tyson essays a completely different kind of showcase, with works by Dutilleux, Petrossian, Scriabin, Gershwin and Ravel at Weill Hall. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) n French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) Syn|Exp Maurice Ravel composer someone who composes music as a profession |
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